[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python 2.6 and 3.0

[Michael Foord]

Christian Heimes wrote:
> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>   
>> Have you looked at http://wix.sourceforge.net/ ?
>>     
>
> WiX looks interesting but I'm neither in the position to change the
> installer nor do I have a strong opinion. It's Martin's area of expertise.
>
> On the one hand a XML based MSI generator could be easier to maintain.
> On the other hand it would introduce another dependency to a 3rd party
> tool and things may get complicated if we leave the road. Automation
> tools tend to make common things really easy but special and uncommon
> stuff really hard.
>   

We build all our installers at Resolver Systems using Wix - dynamically 
generating parts of the templates and doing all sorts of weird and 
wonderful stuff (creating shortcuts, setting registry entries, testing 
dependencies, conditional includes in the installers and so on).

Michael Foord


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